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This is Volume I of III of the Gemini VII voice communications transcript, covering pages 1 to 337 and marked Confidential. It records air-to-ground, ground-to-air and on-board exchanges beginning at lift-off. Early passages cover staging, orbit insertion and stationkeeping with the booster, which the crew reports is venting heavily, and they photograph it. Later passages near 116 hours hold the crew's detailed descriptions of airglow, stars and a sunrise seen from orbit.
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## CONFIDENTIAL 99:00:32 CC Gemini VII, this is Houston. We'd like to try transmitting on HF. I'd like you to go Number 2 Audio to HF - not to HF/VF but just the HF. We're getting the tone and we can't seem to get through. 99:00:59 C Houston, Gemini VII. You're blocked out. We cannot read you now. 99:01:24 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Broadcasting HF. How do you read? 99:01:37 C Loud and clear, Houston. ... 99:01:47 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, this is Houston CAP COM. HF not reading you. How do you read? Over. 99:01:53 C We read you loud and clear. How do you read us? 99:01:56 CC Roger. Gemini VII. Understand you're reading us loud and clear. We're reading you clear but pretty weak, more like you're in a big barrel. Over. 99:02:12 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM. Would you confirm the position of your Antenna Select switch to ADAPTER at this time? Over. 99:02:40 C ... 99:03:34 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM, UHF. How do you read? Over. 99:03:54 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM, UHF. How do you read? Over. 99:04:45 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM broadcasting UHF. Now how do you read? 99:04:58 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, Houston CAP COM on UHF. How do you read? Over. 99:05:29 CC Gemini VII, Gemini VII, this is Houston CAP COM broadcasting UHF in the blind. We understand that your Antenna Select position is REENTRY and has been since lift-off. Roger? 99:05:40 C That's right, Gene. How do you read me now? ## CONFIDENTIAL
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.